Seward Brice
Published: 2015-07-12
Total Pages: 650
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Excerpt from Treatise on the Doctrine, Ultra Vires: Being an Investigation of the Principles Which Limit the Capacities, Powers, and Liabilities of Corporations, and More Especially of Joint Stock Companies This treatise is, as the title-page describes it, "An Investigation of the Principles which Limit the Capacities, Powers, and Liabilities of Corporations, and more especially of Joint-Stock Companies." The doctrine of Ultra Vires is of modern growth. Its appearance as a distinct fact, and as a guiding or, rather, misleading principle in the legal system of this country, dates from about the year 1845, being first prominently mentioned in the cases in equity, of Colman v. Eastern Counties Railway Company in 1846 (a); and at law, of East Anglian Railway Conmpany v. Eastern Counties Railway Company (b) in 1851. At the period now mentioned the great railway companies were being projected and developed. For the making of these lines there were required larger funds than any partnership, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.